2015年12月5日SAT阅读真题预测

　　Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in each passage and in any introductory material that may be provided.

　　Questions are based on the following passage.

　　Not long ago I visited a New England

　　lake that has been preempted and civilized by

　　human beings. All day long in the vacation

　　season high-speed motorboats， driven with the

　　reckless abandon common to the young of our Line5

　　society， speed back and forth. If I had had

　　some desire to swim or to canoe in the older

　　ways of the great forest that once lay about

　　this region， either notion would have been folly.

　　I would have been gaily chopped to ribbons by Line10

　　young people whose eyes were always

　　immutably fixed on the far horizons of space，

　　or on the dials which indicated the speed of

　　their passing.

　　1. Lines 3-9 indicate that the word “civilized” (line 2) is being used

　　A. cautiously

　　B. sarcastically

　　C. humorously

　　D. hopefully

　　E. wistfully

　　2. The underlying sentiment in the sentence beginning “If I had” (lines 6-9) is the author‘s

　　A. nostalgia for experiences that are no longer possible

　　B. grudging admiration for young people

　　C. regret for something he had failed to do

　　D. amusement at his own foolishness

　　E. feeling of moral paralysis

　　Questions are based on the following passage.

　　Artistic， youthful， unattached， inventive， or

　　suspect， Bohemian styles are recurring features of

　　modern life. Have they not always existed in

　　LineWestern society？ In a way， yes： wandering

　　medieval poets and eighteenth-century literary Line5

　　hacks also exhibited features of Bohemians. But

　　written references to Bohemia as a special， identifiable

　　kind of life appear initially in the nineteenth

　　century. It was in the France of the 1830’s and

　　1840‘s that the terms “Bohemia，” “La Boheme，” Line10

　　and “Bohemian” first appeared in this sense. The

　　new vocabulary played on the common French

　　word for gypsy—bohemian—which erroneously

　　identified the province of Bohemia， part of old

　　Czechoslovakia， as the gypsies’ place of origin.Line15

　　3. Which statement best summarizes the point made in lines 1-6？

　　A. Bohemians have always been subjected to suspicion and scorn.

　　B. The Bohemian is an inescapable feature of urban society.

　　C. Bohemianism， as a way of life， is not unique to the nineteenth century.

　　D. Eighteenth-century Bohemia was similar to nineteenth-century Bohemia.

　　E. The province of Bohemia was home to aspiring young artists.

　　4. The passage is best described as

　　A. a refutation of an ancient misconception

　　B. an explanation of a term

　　C. a discussion of one historical era

　　D. a catalog of nineteenth-century biases

　　E. an example of a class struggle

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